a bug in ascii().

(followup to r84635, suggested by Dave Malcolm).

as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.

* Use the new super() with no arguments.
* Replace pow() call with the ** operator.
* Increase urandom seeding from 16 bytes to 32 bytes.
* Clean-up docstring.

to load the one without the SOABI in the name.

thread-local storage key.

adopt a strategy that makes the fewest calls to random().

Thanks to Konrad Delong for writing a test for upload_docs
--show-response in distutils2, letting me catch my mistake.

is friendlier towards reference cycles.  This change is not normally
visible since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used
instead.

and use it in test_robotparser. Fixes #8574.

would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors.  Now the
original error is re-raised.

Original patch by Victor.

The example still doesn't work as-is under py3k, due to incomplete
or buggy porting of the nntplib module.

and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
be updated back after the system call.  Original patch by Brian Brazil.

Patch by Sébastien Sablé.